Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1886 — AGITATED IRELAND. [ARTICLE]

AGITATED IRELAND.

The English Cabinet to Be Quite Chary About Accepting' Home-Rule Proposals. Lord Randolph Churchill’s SchemeProspective Parliamentary Lffgisla'ion. Cable dispatch from London. It Is known pretty certainly in quasi-official circles that the Cabinet council of Saturday unanimously agreed to greet the new Parliament with proposals for legislation which will give nothing to Ireland that would not be conceded on principles already adopted by all parties in England. Lord Randolph Chnrshill submitted to the Cabinet a proposition for the reform of the administration of Government in Ireland. The scheme is supported by the Earl of Carnarvon, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and by Earon Ashbourne, the I»ord Chancellor. The project involves the abolition of the vicerovalty and the castle executive, and the placing of Ireland ou the same footing as Scotland, having a Secretary in the Cabinet. The positive announcement cabled last night that at yesterday’s Cabinet council the paragraph la the Queen's speech promising Irish legislation was, after opposition, eventually adopted, is absolutely conflrmed to-night, and all doubt on the subject arising from conflicting and conjectural reports is set at rest. The Queen sanctions tho introduction of a bill on the lines proposed by the Cabinet, and the speech from the tnrone will pledge the Ministry to bring in a complete scheme of Irish local government. The leaders of the Irish Parliamentary party have decided that the police force now employed in Ireland is throe times os large as is necessary for all proper purposes. One of the first acts of the Dublin Parliament (when created) will be to reduce the number of constables by at least one-half. The increased quietude and security that the Pameilites say will surely follow will afford a striking proof of their good faith.throughout the agitation. It is also virtually decidod to demand a loan from the Imperial Exchequer to purchase arable land in Ireland and distribute it among the present or other tenants upon easy terms of payment, the Irish Government to be charged with the duty of enforcing payments and forwarding the receipts to London. The trade newspapers continue to deplore the foreign competition, which they say is crippling all branches of British trade and industry. The latest instance of this disastrous influence is furnished by the milling business. There has lately been a large and unprecedented migration of English millers to Germany. They have sold their former plants at a loss and have started new mills in Germany, availing themselves of certain local and other advantages which they find in that country. Mahy cargoes of whole wheat, purchased in America, to arrive in the Liverpool and London markets, are fonnd unavailable here because the millers are unable to take it. The captains and supercargoes are therefore instructed to unload in Germany, where the wheat is ground into flour and returned to England. The strong Toryism of the' Times appears to be a serious matter for the Liberals. The proprietor has kept himself free from party entanglements and the paper seems to show lately that its 'proprietor thinks he goes with the tide of public opinion. For example; We cannot satisfy Mr. Parnell by any measure which even Mr. Labouchere would accept. If wo attempt to satisfy him we shall pat weapons into his hands which, as he frankly warned us, he will fortwith turn against ourselves. If we are to stop short of separation, as every Englishman, Radical or Tory, agrees that we are, we must strive to do what is lust and right without listening to the demands of Mr. Parnell and his eighty-five followers. The United KiugJom must not be dismembered. Our national interests are not really at variance, but the n utional sentiment of Ireland is turned against England by what Gold win Smith rightly calls the pressure of a terrorist organization w.elded by a dictator and aided by foreign money. It is this pressure which would be perpetuated and installed in the seat of power and authority by the establishment of a Parliament in Ireland, end Mr. Parnell has told us plainly to what use It wouid be turned. It is for the people of England to(ponder over these things while there is yet time.